Brekke

Brekke Municipality
Brekke herad
Brække herred  (historic name)
View of the village of Brekke
View of the village of Brekke
Sogn og Fjordane within Norway
Sogn og Fjordane within Norway
Brekke within Sogn og Fjordane
Brekke within Sogn og Fjordane
Coordinates: 61°01′07″N 05°27′41″E / 61.01861°N 5.46139°E / 61.01861; 5.46139
CountryNorway
CountySogn og Fjordane
DistrictSogn
Established1850
 • Preceded byEvenvig Municipality
Disestablished1 Jan 1861
 • Succeeded byLavik og Brekke Municipality
Re-established1 Jan 1905
 • Preceded byLavik og Brekke Municipality
Disestablished1 Jan 1964
 • Succeeded byGulen Municipality
Administrative centreBrekke
Area
 (upon dissolution)
 • Total207 km2 (80 sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 codeNO-1414[1]

Brekke is a former municipality in the old Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. The municipality has existed two separate times: from 1850 until 1861 and then again from 1905 until its dissolution in 1964. It was located in the northeastern part of the present-day Gulen Municipality in Vestland county. The municipality encompassed about 207 square kilometres (80 sq mi) south of the Sognefjorden, centered on the Risnesfjorden arm that reaches to the south from the main fjord. The administrative center of the municipality was the village of Brekke, located on the southern shore of the Sognefjord, about a 35 kilometres (22 mi) drive from the village of Eivindvik. The main church for the municipality was Brekke Church.[2]

  1. ^ Bolstad, Erik; Thorsnæs, Geir, eds. (26 January 2023). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget.
  2. ^ Askheim, Svein, ed. (23 September 2019). "Brekke - Gulen". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 28 September 2019.